Description: A literary history of the Haitian Revolution that explores how scientific ideas about 'race' affected 19th-century understandings of the Haitian Revolution and, conversely, how understandings of the Haitian Revolution affected 19th-century scientific ideas about race.
Brief description: Marlene L. Daut is Associate Professor of African Diaspora Studies at the Carter G. Woodson Institute for African American and African Studies and the Program in American Studies at the University of Virginia. She specializes in early and nineteenth-century American and Caribbean literary and cultural studies. Her work has been supported with grants from the Ford Foundation, the National Endowment in the Humanities, and the National Humanities Center (Research Triangle Park).
Review Quotes:
'May her [Daut's] influence continue to power our society out of its systemic racism, and into a more humane, luminous future.'
Julia Douthwaite Viglione, A Revolution in Fiction